S&AS: INT: COLLAB: Goal-driven Marine Autonomy with Application to Fisheries Science and Management

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• 批准号: 1849131
• 负责人: Michael Cox
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: Wright State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-02-15 至 2022-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1849131&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: S& INT; COLLAB; Goal; driven

Marine robots can be used to accurately map and track marine life, leading to a better interpretation of variability and migration patterns that are important to fisheries managers in marine protected areas (MPAs). Principles of engineering and oceanography can be used to maximize the impact of a network of marine robots, but because fisheries managers, oceanographers, and roboticists have different perspectives and knowledge bases, it can be difficult to take advantage of cutting-edge research in each field without significant effort to translate among the groups. Researchers will develop a computational interface that translates human-specified missions of fisheries managers into multi-level planning for a fleet of marine robots to monitor fish populations in a dynamic coastal ocean environment. The system will be designed with input from fisheries managers through a series of workshops, and will be field-tested at Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary, a federally-managed MPA off the coast of Georgia. The research will lead to more accurate and effective ways to monitor fish populations in MPAs, as well as breakthroughs in key areas of artificial intelligence and autonomous systems. Many of the results will be applicable to other smart and autonomous systems in challenging environments. In addition, the project will train graduate students and broaden undergraduate education in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM), and offer a number of outreach activities, including working with the University of Georgia Marine Extension service to develop a summer camp for middle and high school students.The project is focused on developing an intelligent physical system (IPS) that consists of a heterogeneous fleet of marine robots, cooperatively tracking fish movement and surveying the habitat with minimum request for human intervention. The IPS will translate the human-specified missions of fisheries managers into goal-driven task designs for each robot, and automatically generate executable plans for the networked mobile sensing agents. The system will autonomously and persistently collect in-situ measurements and acoustic detections of fish species while maintaining multi-scale data streams and constructing multiple spatial-temporal maps reflecting the conditions of the ecosystem. The research aims to discover the hotspots (e.g., spatial locations with sustained congregations of fish), as well as illuminate more information about how and when fish move among these hotspots. This goal is quite challenging due to a number of gaps between project needs and the state-of-art autonomy research. Researchers will address the challenges through new developments that accomplish three main tasks: (1) Developing the goal-driven marine autonomy for fish habitat survey, (2) realizing the goal-driven autonomy on physical systems, and (3) evaluating the developed framework through real-life field work, experiments, and data analysis.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

海洋机器人可用于准确绘制和跟踪海洋生物，从而更好地解释海洋保护区（MPAs）渔业管理人员重要的变化和迁移模式。 工程学和海洋学的原理可以用来最大限度地发挥海洋机器人网络的影响，但由于渔业管理人员、海洋学家和机器人学家有着不同的视角和知识基础，如果不努力在各个群体之间进行翻译，就很难利用每个领域的前沿研究。研究人员将开发一个计算界面，将渔业管理人员的人类指定任务转化为海洋机器人舰队的多层次规划，以监测动态沿海海洋环境中的鱼类种群。该系统将通过一系列讲习班在渔业管理人员的投入下设计，并将在格雷礁国家海洋保护区进行实地测试，格雷礁国家海洋保护区是格鲁吉亚沿海的一个联邦管理的MPA。 该研究将导致更准确和有效的方法来监测海洋保护区的鱼类种群，并在人工智能和自主系统的关键领域取得突破。许多结果将适用于其他智能和自主系统在具有挑战性的环境。 此外，该项目将培养研究生，扩大科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）的本科教育，并提供一些外联活动，包括与格鲁吉亚大学海洋推广服务部合作，为初中和高中学生开发夏令营。该项目的重点是开发智能物理系统（IPS）该系统由一组不同的海洋机器人组成，它们合作跟踪鱼类的运动并调查栖息地，同时最大限度地减少人为干预的要求。IPS将把渔业管理人员的人类特定任务转化为每个机器人的目标驱动任务设计，并自动为联网的移动的传感代理生成可执行计划。该系统将自主和持续地收集鱼类的现场测量和声学探测，同时保持多尺度数据流，并构建反映生态系统状况的多个时空地图。该研究旨在发现热点（例如，空间位置与持续聚集的鱼类），以及照亮更多的信息，如何以及何时鱼类在这些热点之间移动。由于项目需求与最先进的自主研究之间存在许多差距，因此这一目标具有相当大的挑战性。研究人员将通过新的发展来应对挑战，完成三项主要任务：（1）发展目标驱动的海洋鱼类栖息地调查自治，（2）实现物理系统的目标驱动的自治，（3）通过实际的实地工作，实验，该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

Expectations for agents with goal-driven autonomy

对具有目标驱动自主权的代理的期望

• DOI: 10.1080/0952813x.2020.1789755
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence
• 影响因子: 2.2
• 作者: Dannenhauer, Dustin;Muñoz-Avila, Héctor;Cox, Michael T.
• 通讯作者: Cox, Michael T.

The rational selection of goal operations and the integration of search strategies with goal-driven marine autonomy

目标操作的合理选择以及搜索策略与目标驱动海洋自主的结合

• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems
• 作者: Kondrakunta, Sravya;Gogineni, Venkatsampath R.;Cox, Michael T.;Coleman, Demetris;Tan, Xiaobo;Lin, Tony;Hou, Mengxue;Zhang, Fumin;McQuarrie, Frank;Edwards, Catherine R.
• 通讯作者: Edwards, Catherine R.

Computational metacognition

计算元认知

• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems
• 作者: Cox, Michael T.;Mohammad, Zahiduddin;Kondrakunta, Sravya;Gogineni, Venkatsampath R.;Dannenhauer, Dustin;Larue, Othalia
• 通讯作者: Larue, Othalia

Rebel agents that adapt to goal expectation failures

适应目标期望失败的叛逆代理人

• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: Proceedings of the Integrated Execution / Goal Reasoning Workshop (held at the Thirtieth International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling - ICAPS-20
• 作者: Mohammad, Zahiduddin;Cox, Michael T.;Molineaux, Matthew
• 通讯作者: Molineaux, Matthew

Problem recognition, explanation and goal formulation

问题识别、解释和目标制定

• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: & Applied Computing (CSCE'21
• 作者: Kondrakunta, Sravya;Gogineni, Venkatsampath R.;Molineaux, Matthew;Cox, Michael T.
• 通讯作者: Cox, Michael T.